Chief Information Security Officer

Start Date: 1982-02-01End Date: 2012-01-01

Career SummaryOver twenty-five years experience in protecting the nation’s most sensitive secrets. One of the Government’s leading authorities in program and technical information system security. For fifteen years, managed a multimillion dollar budget to protect all Agency and industrial partner classified computer systems and networks. Worked with all major information technology vendors to improve the security of their products. Accomplishments ● The intelligence community’s most senior information security officer. Served as the agency’s chief of information assurance for fifteen years.● Managed the agency cyber security and cryptology program of record and all related technology initiatives. Directed a large organization of staff and contract employees.● Senior cyber security consultant to agency, intelligence community, national security council, presidential commissions and congressional oversight committees.● Contributed to the development of all national (e.g., ICD 503), federal (e.g., FISMA), industrial (e.g., NISPOM) and legislative cyber security initiatives. ● Served as the agency’s technical security certification authority for all computer systems and networks. ● Influenced the development of commercial operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows), applications (e.g., Oracle data base), networking (e.g., Citrix Zen) and numerous cyber security products.● Developed requirements and served as the technical contract officer for first-of-a-kind security tools including insider misuse detection/audit, privacy encryption, biometric authentication and data sanitization.Technical lead for the development of the agency’s first counterterrorism database and counterintelligence network